Still Gorgeous!

This year has been a slow progression of color.  I was really afraid it was going to peak and be gone.  Especially when we got a lot of rain a few weeks ago, but instead we have had this beautiful transition.  This tree is right outside our house.  It is STUNNING right now!  Absolutely gorgeous!

Check back in a few days for the final reveal of my quilt!  It is almost finished and will be entered in the Bloomington Quilters Guild, Quilts from the Heartland Show on 11/11/11 at the Bloomington Convention Center!  [The show is also 11/12/11, but that is no where near as fun to say!]  Have a great day!

A New/Old Project

I’ve been working on this for a few months – but just recently decided to put it together and try and finish it for a quilt show.  I’m pretty excited about it actually.  This was taken a few days ago, it has rained since and now half of those beautiful leaves in the background are now on the ground.

It is also my cousin’s birthday for a few more minutes.  Well at least here – not in Germany where he is.  Hmmm.  HAPPY BIRTHDAY anyway!  This on top of the fact that I missed KPJ’s birthday and MY birthday.  It was exactly a week ago!  But I was doing fun things and didn’t think to post.   Ah well – all good things in time!

Enjoy your weekend!  Should be a beautiful one!

Almost Fall. . .

This was my drive home Monday evening.  There are some evenings that I feel so entirely blessed to be alive and experiencing all of this.

Today as I drove past the hay has been cut.  Tomorrow it will most likely be baled.  I’m glad I got this shot before it was cut with the fog settled in our little valley.

I’m going to try and be back.  Life continues to be nuts, but I’m maintaining a positive outlook!

Happy Birthday!!!

Today is my mother’s birthday!!! Such a great day.  I have inherited a love of birthday’s from my mother.  Her’s typically last about a month.  This year it really will because she is out gallivanting about in Montana, Washington State and California for the next three weeks!!!

So when she returns I’ll have to come up with some sort of deliciousness for her very special day!  I love you mom!

Summer Fruit

I love this time of year.  Raspberries, gooseberries, blueberries, cherries, soon, peaches and blackberries.  It is just phenomenal!  This is our raspberry, not a whole lot, just enough to pick and eat while savoring the start of the day really.  The goose-berry however is loaded, and I really want to make another pie. Hopefully I’ll be going to pick blueberries tomorrow!  FUN!

Baby Shower!!!

I might have mentioned that my brother and his wife are expecting a baby!!!  Mom flew out on Friday to Montana for a week long visit. They planned a baby shower while she’s out there.  So NOW I can show you what I’ve been working on!!!  These are a pair of baby sneakers that I made last week!  I found the pattern here.  Yes, they are even more adorable in real life!

This, however is my pride and joy!  I started knitting this within a week of me discovering that she was pregnant.  It is my first big knitting project. [well other than a scarf for the boy that is a tad too trendy and I'll be shocked if he ever wears it]  I’m so excited about it.  Turns out it is probably a lot bigger than it needs to be for a baby, but hey- he’ll be able to use it for a longer time!!!  It is so soft.  I was so happy every time I picked it up to work on it!!! [Turns out it is also a good thing I finished it when I did, because knitting is not a warm weather activity!]

More pictures.  I’m just so excited about these!!!  Trust me, I’ll be making more of both!!!

And perhaps because I’m vain, I labeled both!  I can’t wait till the baby is here!  [because then I get to make all sorts of more stuff!]  Have a great week!

Such Grand Plans

Dang it!  I was going to post this on my brother’s birthday!  I had scanned it in months ago with the plans of posting it on June 5th, the day my brother turned 28!

Then of course I took a tiny hiatus of posting and it completely left my brain.  Ah well.  Here are two pictures of this cutie.  One from his 5th birthday, and the other?  Well who knows really.  But isn’t he a cutie?!?!!  Happy Belated Birthday little brother.